Remakes of beloved horror films are all the rage in Hollywood and, unfortunately, most of them are bad. Really bad. However, with the release this week of the remake of the iconic Evil Dead looking like it may buck the trend, we at This Is Horror sat down round a very big, gothic table and …
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247 Degrees Fahrenheit and Maniac Review
Simon Bestwick was on hand to check out a recent Grimm Up North double bill featuring 247 Degrees Fahrenheit and the remake of Maniac, starring Elijah Wood. Find out his verdict below. And if you love horror cinema then you really should get yourself over to The Dancehouse tomorrow for the Northern England premiere of …
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Interview: Jeremy C. Shipp
Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin and Shroud. Keep on reading…
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Peter Tennant Interview, Part I
We recently caught up with Peter Tennant, prolific author of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction and regular reviewer for the This Is Horror Magazine of the Year, Black Static. Keep on reading…
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The ‘I’ in Horror
Writers of great horror don’t hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm. Settings may be familiar, but somehow they are also warped. ‘Natural’ elements are inevitably of the ‘un’ or ‘super’ variety. Plots are designed to unnerve. In horror, the …
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Interview: Wol-vriey
Wol-vriey is Nigerian, and quite tall. He currently resides in a state of uneasy stalemate with his threatening-to-thin-beyond-redemption hair, and believes there actually are things that go bump in the night. Wol-vriey is the author of The Bizarro Story of I, The Clockwork Goddess and Chainsaw Cop Corpse. Keep on reading…
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 April 2013
Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, the place to discover the best articles of the week. This week: Canuxploitation: The Primer 4 Reasons Why Most Horror Remakes Fail HowStuffWorks: How Tremors Graboids Work I Choose To Stand: Retrospective: The Howling How We Made Knightmare For more articles like this, please follow @thisishorror on Twitter. …
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Interview: Monty Borror
Monty Borror is the illustrator of Quarantined, a graphic novel written by Michael Moreci. His previous work includes Spirit Window and Garbage Day from Arcana Ent, and the anthology 2012 Final Prayer. Cold Blooded Chillers, in which Borror’s work appears, was the winner of the bronze Independent Publisher’s Award in 2009. He is currently illustrating work for Arcana …
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News Round-up Week Ending 12 April
Nightsiders eMerges Keep repeating, it’s only a story, it’s only a story, it’s only a story… DarkFuse are pleased to announce that Gary McMahon’s new novella Nightsiders is now available on Kindle. As ever, McMahon mixes the macabre and the evocative in this brilliant new novella. The novella can be downloaded in both the UK and US …
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